1904- Pictures from a Trip via Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson, an american art and history enthusiast, found a photo album in Minneapolis MN on a flea market In 1990, the photo album contained 240 negatives of pictures taken by a single photographer on a tour through Europe The notable quality and composition of these pictures is very rare for this era and is reminiscent of Alfred Stieglitz, Eugène Atget and August Sander, some of the biggest names in photography in that period. Mr. Nelson has been searching for the author of these pictures for 25 years, but never found anything aside from the copy of a single picture in an archive in Bayreuth, Germany. Nelson followed the route of the European tour in London, Paris, Vienna, Bayreuth, Nuremberg-Dresden-Prague - and identified its date. On one of the photos taken in London in the background researcher spotted a man with a promotional poster of the play "Cynthia", composed by "Miss Ethel Barrymore." Nelson managed to find out that the aforesaid piece was set in London only once - in the middle of May 1904. The play failed and never renewed. But the identy of the photographer remains a mystery.
Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech republic. by Marek Kijevský